Lansdowne unveiled their new, “pop-up” stand on the Aviva back pitch in Lansdowne Road last Friday night, the novelty of which even earned a mention in the Irish Times on Monday morning! The new facility was scarcely used, however, as…
Lansdowne U17’s had a very tough encounter on a wet and windy Sunday afternoon playing away in Wanderer’s RFC. The home team went into a 12-0 early lead helped by some excellent positional kicking from their outhalf. Lansdowne responded with…
Well, it had to happen sometime. Lansdowne’s remarkable 12-match winning run in Ulster Bank Division 1A was unlikely to last the season, and it duly came to an end against a stoked-up Garryowen side who have now won all of…
A wet, mucky day, with a chill wind blowing off the Dublin Mountains ensuring that this top- of-the- table clash was always going to be a close-fought, tight affair. And so it came to pass – two evenly-matched sets of…
Lansdowne U20s continued there impressive JP Fanagan Premier 1 Leagueform with a convincing 52-7 win against Blackrock under the lights at Headquarters on a cold but dry Sunday afternoon. Lansdowne opened the scoring when Tim Murphy broke on the blind…
In the beautiful surroundings of College Park on a crisp sunny Sunday afternoon, Lansdowne took on Trinity in a top of the table Premier 1 clash in front of a healthy sized attendance. Taking the game to Trinity, Lansdowne had…
Round 7 of the Ulster Bank AIL saw Lansdowne make the short trip across the Liffey to Castle Avenue, where the current League leaders took on Clontarf, last season’s runner’s up in the competition. So it was first against third…
A delighted Ian Prendiville lifted the Leinster League Division 1 Trophy last night. The First XV were away to Clontarf at Castle Avenue for a wet and miserable double header Division 1 final and Ulster Bank League match which they…
Lansdowne’s highly-impressive form after the half time interval continued on the Aviva back pitch last Saturday as the Ulster-Bank-sponsored AIL Division 1A League completed the first third of the regular season. Once again, the inspiring half-time words of Coaches Mike…
Lansdowne continued their good start to U20s league with comprehensive win over Navan on a crisp winter’s afternoon in Ballycorus. Lansdowne took the game to Navan straight from the kick off and were 14-0 up after 3 minutes with tries…
Saturday morning bragging rights over the cornflakes in the Ruddock household distinctly belong to Dad Mike, as his Lansdowne side gave St. Mary’s, captained by his son Ciaran, a second-half rugby lesson at Templeville Road last Friday night. Club Captain…
Lansdowne started brightly and after sustained pressure, a neat kick by Peter Hastie was well fielded by Sean Gavin to open the scoring in the left corner. Shortly after the restart Lansdowne were caught in possession and Terenure replied with…
